Saturday, January 29, 2011

Thursday, January 27, 2011

I've been wanting to ply for a while, so I spun up this gorgeous colorway and plied it with light color wool from JoAnn out at Sweet Home Spun. This was the result:Update: the raspberry dye did not work out as planned. So next I'm going to try Kool Aid dying.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

I found this website: Click Me on Natural Dyes and decided to give it a try!!My wool is soaking in Raspberry dye bath in this Mason jar :)If this works well, I'd like to dye roving with some of my other favorite fruits and spin them together: color palate...After that I'd like to try dying with Kool Aid. This website shows you how some of the flavors turn out. I especially like the grape, black cherry, changin' cherry, strawberry starfuit, and ice blue raspberry lemonade.

Monday, January 17, 2011

I've been wanted to give needle felting a try and foung the most adorable book, "Wool Pets", so I also purchased some needles. I'm excited most about doing some spinning on my two new fleeces. :) I also purchased a flicker to experiment with!!

I'm working on two sweater simultaneously: the owl sweater and the Lobito Jacket. I've been working on the owl sweater for a while now and lost momentum. In attempt to regain that momentum, I decided to start another sweater(the lobito) with Noro Yarn, which always motivates me.

The Owl Sweater. My Progress: Owl Sweater. Torso is finished and a sleeve is started. I have to finish both sleeves, then make the yoke.

The Lobito Jacket. My Progress: Lobito Jacket. The Body is almost finished, soon I will start on the chest(the multicolor part in the picture). I'm debating on either using white as my second color or not using a second color at all.